Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry underwent surgery on his broken left hand/second metacarpal Friday and will miss at least three months, the team announced.
Curry had the surgery the Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles.
The Warriors said he is expected to make a full recovery and will update his status in three months.
Curry was hurt in Wednesday’s loss to the Suns when he drove to the rim and collided with Phoenix big man Aron Baynes, who attempted to take a charge and ended up falling on top of the star guard’s hand. The team said Thursday that he had a CT scan on the hand and would have specialists look at it before deciding how to proceed.
Ultimately, they decided surgery was the the best course of action.
It’s a significant loss for a Warriors team off to a 1-3 start to the season. The six-time All-Star was expected to carry the bulk of the offensive load for a Warriors team without Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant this season. He was averaging 23.5 points this season.
The Warriors will play 45 games over the next three months; they have 51 more games before the All-Star break.
“It’s hard,” forward Draymond Green told The Undefeated’s earlier this week. “Makes things even harder.”
Golden State’s odds to win the NBA championship tumbled from 35-1 to 100-1 at Caesar’s Sportsbook after the injury Wednesday.